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...Beauregard, co-chair of the National High School Association, says that part of the problem can be solved with greater awareness by administration and faculty about how obesity can affect high school kids' emotional and academic lives, and with a willingess to work some of that understanding into the curriculum. Currently, 17% of U.S. adolescents are overweight, double what it was in the 1980s, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Beauregard says that school administrators need "to talk about acceptance and tolerance" for these kids...
...suits to sustain enough counter pressure. To work, the BioSuit needs to exert close to one-third of the pressure exerted by the Earth's atmosphere, or 30 kilopascals (kPA). So far, the suits have consistently given off only 20 kPA. The researchers aren't sure what the problem is yet, but they suspect it has something to do with the suit's pattern...
...rape and the man experiences it as sex," Anderson says of the language ban. "It's a way of denying the woman's ability to describe her experience as she lived it." To her, the fact that Bowen described her ordeal as simply "inside of me" was a problem because "it's so bland that it could describe what a dentist does with dentist tools to excavate a cavity." Murphy agrees: "Nobody in that courtroom was allowed to describe what happened as a crime...
...Bush -who is trying to keep down spending - has agreed to a $5 billion per year increase, for a total of $25 billion over five years, and tackling the problem of the uninsured by subsidizing private insurance policies. The bill that emerged from the panel provides for a $35 billion increase over five years. Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat and one of the bill's architects, said that if Bush "really wants to veto this bill because we're $10 billion apart, then I say go right ahead...
...mystical Maiar, which is what Gandalf was (what, you thought he was human? Genealogically speaking, he's closer to a balrog than he is to a man.) There is certainly no benevolent, paternal Aslan to turn up late in the book and fight the Big Bad. The essential problem in Rowling's books is how to love in the face of death, and her characters must arrive at the solution all on their own, hand-to-hand, at street level, with bleeding knuckles and gritted teeth, and then sweep up the rubble afterwards...